2015 Taylor (Fladgate) Porto Vintage Vargellas

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  9/21/2023 - MAkita Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is a really lovely port drunk far too young. It took a very long time to open, but when it did some really nice notes of strawberry, lavender, lilac playing to an overall rich but not overly heavy wine. A nicely tannic, drying finish that was maybe a bit too grippy now will, I suspect, only become more refined with age. This is one to keep in the bottle for a good while longer, and it should reward you for your patience

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  7/21/2023 - tob100 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  So here's what i did
  First I took a zip when opening the bottle. Could tell that it needed to breathe, so....
  
  I poured the wine from the bottle into a decanter and let it sit for one hour.
  In that hour the bottle went into the fridge.
  After the one hour I took, the now cold, bottle out of the fridge and poured the wine back in = so an hour of decanting including a double decant, for this wine.
  Tasted over 4 hours
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  The nose:
  Still very muted (impressive) but a big swirl gives me prune, raisin, plum, alcohol, figs, oak/wood and creamy semi-dark chocolate.
  
  The palate:
  Big player here is chocolate. Melts right on the tounge. Fruity notes with plum, figs and raisin. Oak yet again.
  It does feel more fruity than wine thats 20 years old, but somehow closed at this age. So again, a long decant will benefit. As the time goes, a creamy mocha/chocolate comes up. The wine is getting more round, more balanced.
  
  Acidity medium
  Tannin high
  Full body
  Sweetness medium+
  
  It should at last have 4-6 hour decant before drinking
  
  94 points

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  9/13/2022 - mdefreitas wrote: 92 Points

  Quite good for the closeout price I picked this up at. Dark fruits and heavy on the clove, licorice and pepper. Still quite grippy and could use a good decant to soften it up a bit.

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  2/3/2022 - bsweetnam Likes this wine:

  Really good with chocolate.

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  1/12/2022 - Es7e2003 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep purple in glass. Mulberry, cassis liquor, plum, cloves and minerality. Cool acidity balanced by the tannins. No discernible heat. Medium plus finish. Held up well after 3 days. Quite enjoyable for the price.

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